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The Carney dilemma – Get a real job, or sue

LeagueHG informs us that the man who has given so much mirth to Canberra, Todd Carney, is considering suing for the right to play Rugby League in Australia as the realisation dawns that his criminal past makes getting working visas for overseas opportunities tricky.

The NRL would probably like Todd to work a real job for a year before a 2010 return, but I’ve got a sneaking suspicion a court would agree they can’t keep him in the freezer on a whim.

Raiders management will reportedly be unhappy if he were allowed to play for anyone else this year, but it’s not like he’s their property either.

As a footballer he is an absolute tool and he has shown this time and time again.

Maybe it is time for him to get a menial, ‘real’ job and see what life is really like. Maybe it will change his perspective on live?

Who knows, it may well be the making of him as decent human being, and if so, then there’s nothing to stop him going back and playing footy again. After all, he is still only young.

Well said Thumper. Putting into perspective, he’s only sidelined for 12 months. You can get the same time out of the game for any number of pre-season injuries. If his manager was doing his job properly be he’s getting Todd to do some worthwhile work that might modify Todd’s behaviour but more importantly rehabilitate his public reputation. All they can do is look to getting him back on the paddock in ’10. By turning this years enforced break into an opportunity rather than a setback they can set Carney up for good sponsorship earnings at the end of this season.

Although I can never understand why, for example, a capacity to kick/hit/throw a ball extremely well should make a person less of a toad than ordinary mortals. Give any 22 year old a truckload of money and tell them they are fabulous – what do you expect to happen?

I remember reading that he’d been ‘encouraged’ to go and help out at some form of drop-in centre for druggists or young people who’s deprived childhoods had forced them into menacing people at servos with syringes filled with tomato sauce, and commenting to the press (OK, a Canberra Times cheerl- sorry, sports journalist) what a positive effect working with ‘real people’ had had on him.
One of the helpers at this centre mentioned that he had given an undertaking to return to see how his new friends were doing in their struggle to become productive members of society.
Once Plod had taken the hard word off of Carney’s shoulders?
“he hasn’t been back”
And that is the last breath or indeed keystrock I’m going to waste on this absolute tosser.

It’s not as if he’s going to do anything more worthwhile with his life than play Rugby League. It seems like a waste of human potential to force him into being a second rate shop-boy or brickies labourer.

He’s had several wake up calls and is obviously not very bright as he still managed to get himself in the !*^#
Time to get a NORMAL job and a NORMAL life as he can’t handle a small amount of footy fame.

People in ‘normal’ occupations regularly find that having a criminal record prejudices their employment prospects. Why should Carney be any different? He’s too stupid to work a real job. I suspect it’s his slimy ‘agent’ David Riolo who is thinking of taking this to court. Imagine being stood looking after Toddy for a year when he’s not earning you any coin!